SAS 7 Flashcards
(22 cards)
INHIBITS MYCOLIC ACID
ISONIAZID
USED FOR ISONIAZID RESISTANT PATIENTS
ETHIONAMIDE
FIRST LINE OF CHOICE FOR SHORT TERM TB TREATMENT
PYRAZINAMIDE
ADMINISTERED ORALLY AS NA SALT
AMINOSALYCYLIC ACID
TREATS LEPROSY
CLOFAMAZINE
KNOWN TO BIND TO NUCLEIC ACID AND CONCENTRATE IN RETICULOENDOTHELIAL TISSUE
CLOFAMAZINE
MOST ACTIVE AGENT FOR TB TREATMENT
RIFAMPIN
MAC IN AIDS PATIENTS
RIFABUTIN
PREVENTS CROSS LINKING OF PEPTIDE
CYCLOSERINE
DAMAGES 8TH CRANIAL NERVE AND RENAL DAMAGE
STERILE CAPREOMYCIN SULFATE
for acute and chronic amebiasis but not on extraintestinal diseases
Iodoquinol
treats pneumonia carinii
Pentamidine Isethionate
treats West African Sleeping sickness
Eflornithine
treats Trypanasoma Cruzi
Nifurtimox
Treats Chaga’s disease
Benznidazole
Prevents protein elongation
Emetine
treats late stages of both forms of African Trypanosomiasis
Melarsoprol
causes flaccid paralysis in worms which eventually will be expelled in feces
Piperazine
A depolarizing NMB that causes spastic paralysis in susceptible helminthes
PYP
Pyrantel pamoate
irreversibly blocks glucose reuptake in susceptible helminths.
MBD
Mebendazole
Blocks interneuron-motor neuron transmission in nematodes.
IVR
Ivermectin
has an AE of Bone marrow depression, the elevation of hepatic enzymes, and alopecia.
Albendazole